Mesut Özil

Mesut Özil is a German football player. He has been described as a “third-generation immigrant”. His family is from Devrek, Zonguldak, Turkey. He has said, “My technique and feeling for the ball is the Turkish side to my game. The discipline, attitude and always-give-your-all is the German part.”

Mesut has been described as having Kurdish ancestry. It is not clear if this is accurate.

He himself claims to be of ethnic Turkish descent-not Kurdish.
Some people make rumors he is Kurdish because he made the decision to play for Germany instead of Turkey. His family has been living in Germany for generations.

trust me, his grandparents and father were born in turkey.
I live in Germany and we do know the soccer national player really good.
he stated himself in several TV interviews that his parents were born in zonguldak/turkey. his father, is known, immigrated to germany when he was 2 years old.
turkish people started to immigrate to germany in 1970s.

He’s not ethnically Kurdish…Some people think he’s Kurdish because he refused to play for the Turkish team, he preferred to play for the German team…So some think he’s a traitor so he can’t be Turkish..
Actually, he is of Turkish descent.